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I spent most of my Air Force career as a pessimist. I’ll admit it. If you know me now that may be a surprise. It was a comfortable way to live because it didn’t allow me to get my hopes up. It was a defense mechanism that kept me at the ready. After Jesus restored me to a relationship with Him I began to realize that my pessimistic way of living kept my hopes down, kept me living guarded and honestly robbed me of many things. So here are some reasons I found to ask God to begin to make me a “Half Full” thinker. 1. Hope is important! Hebrews 10:23 So now we must cling tightly to the hope that lives within us, knowing that God always keeps his promises! Why would we want to stifle something that God wants us to have? 2. Letting down the walls is important! 1 Peter 4:10-11 Every believer has received grace gifts, so use them to serve one another as faithful stewards of the many-colored tapestry of God’s grace. For example, if you have a speaking gift, speak as though God were speaking his words through you. If you have the gift of serving, do it passionately with the strength God gives you, so that in everything God alone will be glorified through Jesus Christ. For to him belong the power and the glory forever throughout all ages! Amen. It’s hard sometimes to be vulnerable but we can’t exercise our all our gifts in seclusion. 3. Last but not least our peace of mind is important and God gave us a recipe to live unguarded and still have peace. Philippians 4:8 So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always. It’s a difficult change and honestly my old pessimism still rears its ugly head from time to time, but the fight is worth it. Living in the positive and loving grace of God with a hope grounded in Him is true freedom and it allows us to forgive freely, ditch bitterness and live in a hope for the better we know He promised things. #LLK #OTIC #HalfFull https://www.instagram.com/p/CG9_lI9p-ZU/?igshid=4fuj60ldq0zy

Patience is something I struggle with. Just being honest, even when it comes to sanctification, I really just want God to “change me now!” “Make me like Jesus now!” All the while the more He fixes in me the more I realize needs fixing. In Paul’s definition of Love 1 Corinthians 13:4 we see the first crucial part... “Love is patient”, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, I don’t think it was a haphazard thing that being patient was the first attribute. In our society we don’t really hone this skill. I’m still working on this and I hope you do too. I’ll be praying for y’all so please do the same for me! We’ll get this together!! #LLK #OTIC #FixMe https://www.instagram.com/p/CGZhUwrpjh0/?igshid=gxmfe907task

Sence invita a plantear ideas de capacitación en consulta “Yo soy buen@” La Consulta Ciudadana “Yo Soy Buen@” de Sence y la OTIC de la Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, permite a los trabajadores y trabajadoras del país proponer en qué y cómo capacitarse, para sacar el máximo provecho a sus habilidades y mejorar su empleabilidad.

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SENCE busca las mejores ideas de capacitación laboral: el plazo es hasta este 15 de septiembre La Consulta Ciudadana “Yo Soy Buen@” de SENCE y el OTIC de la Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, permite a los trabajadores y trabajadoras del país proponer en qué y cómo capacitarse, para sacar el máximo provecho a sus habilidades y mejorar su empleabilidad.

Lord, help me and Your Church be part of untangling the chaos in our world 🌎 today. Help us to use Biblical precedent as a roadmap to effectively reach the lost, obey your commands and disciple each other in love. Help us be a part of bringing unity in your church and remember that we do not battle against flesh and blood. Help us follow Paul’s example so we may also partner with You for the sake of the Gospel. Amen. 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 Paul, a Servant to All Now, even though I am free from obligations to others, I joyfully make myself a servant to all in order to win as many converts as possible. I became Jewish to the Jewish people in order to win them to the Messiah. I became like one under the law to gain the people who were stuck under the law, even though I myself am not under the law. And to those who are without the Jewish laws, I became like them, as one without the Jewish laws, in order to win them, although I’m not outside the law of God but under the law of Christ. I became “weak” to the weak to win the weak. I have adapted to the culture of every place I’ve gone so that I could more easily win people to Christ. I’ve done all this so that I would become God’s partner for the sake of the gospel. #LLK #OTIC https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5cqzcpzPU/?igshid=1ckwf33kvtd9n